The Last Human Voice Podcast
Episodes
Taxing Tilly: What's an Avatar Worth?
25 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The all-singing, all-dancing, Tilly Norwood has been back in the spotlight, this time as a...
ElevenLabs: Eleven Billion Questions
25 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. We turn our attention this time to ElevenLabs, which is storming ahead of the competition ...
AI Licensing for Literature in a Post-Scraping World
11 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. We talk a lot about licensing our own data for AI training, often in the context of actors...
The Digital Skin Trade
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Imagine your digital self being stripped down and sold for parts. Far from science fiction...
An AI Dubbing Mess
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Did people with ears hear it before it went out?That's the Question of the Week, as w...
STRIKE THREE
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. We like to open a season with a bit of industrial action and this season is no exception. ...
Season 2 Finale: Wins, Fails and Predictions
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. We bring Season 2 to a close with some reflections on the long-running soap opera that is ...
The Commons Report: British Film and High-End TV
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. A brand new Government report has landed. Same old, same old? We think not!The Report int...
The Paris AI Summit
28 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The third international AI Summit has graced the Grand Palais in Paris. Mathilde was the ...
Is the UK Really Open for Consultation? with Tim Carter
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Late in 2024, the UK government launched a Consultation on Copyright and Artificial Intell...
Synthetic Nostalgia with Dr Jenny Kid & Dr Eva Nieto McAvoy
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In Season 1, we delved into what happens to our digital remains once our mortal bodies a...
The SAG-AFTRA Video Game Strike, with Tim Friedlander
12 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Another year, another strike. On our very first episode, back in 2023, we covered the acto...
What's in a Voice? With Dr Jennifer Chubb & Dr Peter Harrison
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The use of AI to enhance actors' accents in the film The Brutalist has made headlin...
Tax Relief to the Rescue! with Sam Radclyffe of Galatea
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Ah, the excitement of Tax Return season!In this episode, we double down on the joys of Tax...
Plus Ça Change: Will a New Government Bring Change? With Nicola Solomon from the Creators' Rights Alliance
01 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Between 2020 and 2024, the UK has had four Prime Ministers and a long running game of Mu...
Who Cares About Artists When the World Is on Fire?
18 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Dr Mathilde Pavis has questions. A lot of questions. Which she likes to spring on her unsu...
The Crossover, with Patrick Messe of Mic Rider Deep Talk
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. One of our previous guests, Patrick Messe, of United Voice Artists returns for a crossover...
Not in My (Digital) Back Yard
20 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Mathilde hijacks this episode with a question directed at co-hosts, Marcus and Annette. No...
What is Data Mining and Why Should We Care?
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Most discussions about AI start with topic of "data mining". But how many of us...
Is AI Breaking the News? With Pete Pachal from Mediacopilot
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In the first episode of Season 2, we look at the role of AI in Journalism. Are journalis...
AI & Copyright Law: Can it protect Creatives, with Dr Andres Guadamuz
24 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Copyright Law is in our sights as we reach our Season 1 finale. Dr Andres Guadamuz is a...
Digital Remains: Your Rights After Death, with Dr Edina Harbinja
10 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Let's talk about death. Have you considered how you want your digital remains (yes, ...
Own Your Clone, with Sam Radclyffe
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. What does it look like to do business with clones in a way which puts the artist at the ce...
Big Tech, Big Deals, Small Change
12 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In this episode we take a look at very recent deals that tech giants have made with media ...
Getting Organised: The UVA Story, with Patrick Messe
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The story of UVA (United Voice Artists) is a lesson in organising, not just for Creative W...
The Right to Deepfake, with Dr Dimitrios Kagiaros
15 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Should the creation of Deepfakes be a protected right under the banner of Free Speech?How ...
Does AI Mean What It Says? With Dr Jumbly Grindrod
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. This time, we get a philosopher's take on AI.Jumbly Grindrod is a lecturer in philoso...
The Sara Poyzer Twitter Storm, Marvin Gaye's Missing Music and Your Digital Afterlife
17 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In this episode, we select from the latest AI stories that have grabbed the headlines or...
Is Ethical AI Good for Business? With Jamie Anderson & Ben Field
03 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Much of the fear generated by AI is about theft; the companies that own the technology w...
Gerry Anderson: A Life Resurrected, with Jamie Anderson & Ben Field
20 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. How would it feel to see a digital deepfake of someone you love who has died? What would...
Dr Dominic Lees: Deepfaking Margaret Thatcher
06 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Dr Dominic Lees is an award-winning filmmaker and director. He is also Associate Professor...
The SAG-AFTRA Deal, Part 2
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Who is going to own your clone? Who gets to control your digital double after you're ...
The SAG-AFTRA Deal, Part I
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. On the 14th of July 2023, the American actors’ union ‘SAG-AFTRA’ joined the strike a...
Yvonne Muinde: Painting with AI
01 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Our guest in this episode is Yvonne Muinde, an award-winning visual effects artist whose...
The SAG-AFTRA Digital Voice Replica Agreement
18 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. “A ground-breaking, innovative new contract”; that’s the headline for the deal negot...
Short Talks: Do I Want To Be A Clone?
04 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. What does it mean to have your voice or performance cloned? Is there a difference between ...
Short Talks: What Am I Worth?
21 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The phrase "Know your worth" is often repeated among artists, performers and oth...
Call My Agent
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Agents are the hard-negotiating, multi-tasking, contract-savvy industry experts, working t...
Legislating AI. With Dragos Tudorache
23 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. The EU Artificial Intelligence Act has been described as the most ambitious attempt to dat...
Buyouts 101
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. What does the term "Buyout" mean? What's the best way to respond to buyou...
Moral Rights 101
26 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. In this episode, we talk about performers’ moral rights. What are they? Who is entitled ...
Dragging AI
12 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. How celebrated artist Jake Elwes is queering AI data sets and challenging big tech to th...
A United Front
05 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. How unions are taking active steps to champion artists and performers who are facing job d...
The Artist's Dilemma
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. For Artists, AI offers an exciting toolkit - particularly tools for performance synthesi...
Picketing Hollywood
18 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Get in touch to submit a question or send us your feedback. Why have America’s actors and writers gone on strike? And is why AI so important in the ...